Karl Eglseer

Karl Eglseer (5 July 1890-23 June 1944) was a General der Infanterie of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography
Karl Eglseer was born in Bad Ischl, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary on 5 July 1890, and he enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1908. Eglseer served in World War I, during which he was captured by the Imperial Russian Army, and he became an oberst in the Bundesheer of the Federal State of Austria during the Interwar period. He commanded the 1st Alpenjaeger Division at Ganserndorf during the 1930s, and he left the Austrian army in 1938 to join the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany. Eglseer commanded several jaeger and gebirgsjaeger divisions, and he came to command the XVIII Gebirgskorps on 10 December 1943 (replacing Franz Boehme). On 23 June 1944, Eglseer, Eduard Dietl, and Thomas-Emil von Wickede were killed in a plane crash near Rettenegg, Ostmark, and Friedrich Hochbaum took command of the corps.